When the Job Market doesn't work

I talked with my mother the other day, and I was telling her how I was frustrated that I could only save $200 a month from my income. Now, to me, thid sisn't seem like much, because what I'm saving for is a plane ticket to Vladivostok, Russia, to visit my fiancée (and not just because I miss her and want to be with her - it's because the immigration service requires us to have pictures together to demonstrate that we have a relationship before they'll grant her a visa), and with plane tickets to Vlad in four figures, $200 a month doesn't sound like much. But when I told her this, she was so proud of me that I was able to save that much, as if that's a lot to be saving out of one's monthly budget.

Of course, what that made me realize is that in our day and age, going through the job market no longer works. Yes, I have a job, and yes, it meets my needs and allows me to save, but it's not allowing me to reach my full potential of being married and raising a family, let alone fulfilling other professional and personal goals of mine. And with a raise freeze, that probably won't be changing anytime soon.

And if the job market isn't working for me that does have a job, how much more is it not working for those that haven't been able to find a job, or who lost their job recently?

Out of the thousands in America who are unemployed or underemployed, we should be able to band together and interconnect together. With the amount of companies going bankrupt these days, there are fewer and fewer traditional employers. So what's the alternative? Well, if there are fewer and fewer employers, then there will need to be more and more entrepreneurs.

I'll write more in the coming days about this, but in the meantime, why don't you ask yourself, if you can't depend on the traditional workforce, what are you going to do to make sure you don't have to?